The Sun. — London, England, 1808-11-12 00:00:00

M A I L S. • lotßiven Gottenburgh, i Dublin, i Waterford. Du Dublin, 2 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCK" THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. COTLSOIS THE SUN. SOLYM Q,C715 DICiRA 1 AUDIAT L 0 ND D IV, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1808. This morning two Gottenburgit Mails arrived.— Tlie only news of impurtancd they contain is, that th.-! Armistice betwee❑ the Swedes and Rassians has been broken by the latter, and that a very severe en gaement took place, in which the Swedes were defeated. It dots not appear from this account whether the Armistice was treacherously broken, or whether due notice was given; nor are any particulars of the action mentioned. WE received this morning Moniteurs to the Ist inst. but they are uncommonly barren of intelli gence, and preserve a profound silence with respe& to the afThirs of Spain. The Phrcuir Transport, froM Quiberon Bay, ar lived at Falmouth on Wednesday : she parted from the remainder of the Fleet two days since to the westward of Scilly. They consisted of thirty-five Sail, and are part of those which arrived on Sun day last, being the third division of Cartel Trans ports, having on board 7000 French Cavalry and Infantry from Lisbon, under charge of Lieutenant R. WILBRAHAM. There are seven of the Trans ports unaccounted for, which it is supposed are driven to the westward. Lieut. W. reports, that on the arrival of the French Troops in Quiberon Bay, a great number of them, understanding that they were im mediately to be embodied to march against the Spaniards, hid themselves in different parts of the Transports, in the hope that they would be con veyed to England. The French Officers spoke very disrespectfully of BUONAPARTE, and stated that the marching against Spain would render him extreme ly unpopular in France. Lieut. W. further states i . the plunder carried off by the French Troops was very considerable : every soldier had a quantity of Portuguese coin in gold. Yesterday some Spanish tapers to the 28th inst. reached ic;wn, and we are happy to hod from them that the efforts of the Patriots in Catalonia have been attended with a considerable degree of success, and that the French are nearly shut up in Barcelona.— Lieutenant-Colonel CartßoL, one of the British Of ficers attached to the Army of General BLAKE, has pu4shed a very animating Address to the inhabitants of Biscay, in which he confidently anticipates the success of the Spanish arms. - WE have so often expressed our sentiments re speaing the indecency of continuing to petit;on the ik.. - ttsro for that which his MAJESTY has solemnly promised, and has ordered all due measures to be taken for. the purpose of having his gracious prothisc fulfilled, that we need say but a very few words on the Meeting which took place yesterday at Hackney, on this subje&. Our Readers will find an account of this Meeting in another part of ow Paper. The leading men yesterday, are notorious for the zeal with which they have systematically opposed Go vernment for many years, and therefore it would have been more sutprizing if they had reflained from coming forward on such an occasion, than if they had shewn due respea for the Royal Charaaer, and had manifested a dutiful reliance on the Royal word. The Meeting, though numerous, constituted but a small part of the real Freeholders of the County cf Middlesex, and if they had all aaually been Free holders, still we are persuaded that there is so much good sense, so much genuine patriotism, so nice a regard for justice, and so great a respet for his Mit.. JESTY in the County at large, that it would dis dain to give its sanction to the proceedings of yes terday, and to insult a just and venerable Mo narch by again asking him to grant what he Has already granted. The Petition assented to yesterday is of a more intemperate chara&er than any that has yet been proposed on the subjed but this is not a matter of surprise, as it was probably framed by Mr. CLIFFORD. It expresses inclination, as well as deep regret, at the late. events in Portugal, and yet disclaims all intention to prejudge the matter. Such is the consistency, or rather the candour, of that Petition which professes to solicit inquky. That the chief agents yesterday wereaCtuated by party feelings is evident, as well from their conduCt on the spot, as from their perseverance in requiring- what they know is on the'eve of taking place, as the most in decent .treatinent was_ experienced by those who ventured to of pose the btihjed of the Meeting.— Mr. ML1.1.111, qtle of the Membep for the County, met with frequent interruptions, though he said notting. but what was perfeetly consistent with a due, .re4;ard for the rights of the stibiea, as well as'for the dignityof the Crown..--This Gentleman observed, that be did not believe any man in the place actually thought that a due investigation would not take place, and we not only agree with him, but are convinced that there is not a man of sense in the whole kingdom that can possibly have a doubt on the subject. His Majesty, in his answer to the City of London, de cidedly manifested his sentiments on the subject, and plainly demonstrated that no application could be necessary to induce him to direct an Inquiry, since he declared that the Convention had disappointed the hopeS and expectations of the Nation. After such a declaration, as none can pretend to doubt that a full inquiry will take place, it is abso lutely disgraceful to the Country that Meet ings should be held for the purpose of in sulting him with farther requisitions.—Mr. By NG, who, by trimming a few years ago, hattvery nearly lost his seat for Middlesex, and who has by no means firmly regained his political reputation in the County, thought it. necessary to endeavour to prop his character yesterday, by expressing a wish that " the friends of,Liberty would defend their rights as vigilantly as the Ministers, and their followers all,. servants, watcle_over the Prerogative." it is not dif ficult to conceive what characters Mr. ByNG alluded to when . he mentioned the friends of Liberty, as plenty of such friends were present yesterday ; but as he doubtless intended to designate men who are constantly eudeavouriug to thwart the measures of Government, and who are the chief fomenters of these Petitions, we are glad to find, that though he did not intend to say any thing complimentary to Ministers, he has thus borne testimony to their re gard for the Constitution, by acknowledging their vigilance in guarding the monarchical branch of it, while there are so many zealots for democracy every day attempting todisturb the public tranquillity. Up on the whole, the Meeting of yesterday was of just such a charaeler as those which preceded it, only that the Petition was a more violent manitestation of distrust of His Majesty's promise, graciously pledged to , the People, and about to be immediately carried into execution, with the fairest prospect of a • decision satisfa6lory to the Nation. The KING did not take his usual ride on Thurs day nor yesterday, the weather being very unfavour able. The Duke of GLOUCESTER arrived yesterday at Windsor, on a visit w their MAJESTIES. The Prince of WALES was expected to leave Windsor last evening, for London, and is expe&ed to return the beginning of next week. He has been four days on a visit to their MAJESTIES. Yesterday a Cabinet Council was held at the Fo reign Office, which sat from half after (me to half after five o'clock. The tbllowing Members assist ed : Earl CAMDNN, the ,three Secretaries of State, the LORD CHANCELLOR, and the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER. Mr. DONALDSON, one of his Majesty's Mes sengers, left town on Thursday evening. He is to sail for Stockholm in the same vessel with Mr. MERRY. It is intended to send out more men to Spain, both from this country and from Ireland. The trans.; ports that lately sailed from Portsmouth will return immediately to that place and to Cork, ,under con voy of two frigates, with a view to this object From the circumstance of these being chietiy cavalry trans ports, it is likely that the new expedition will cola sistof that description of force. Some letters from Lisbon state, that the trans ports which conveyed the French troops to Rochelle, have returned to the Tagus—;they arc to be s ent t o England, to carry out more troops. By accounts from Hanover we learn that twenty six Officers, belonging to the Spanish Algarva Re giment of Cavalry, lately reached that place under escort. They were allowed to keep their horses, and to wear their swords; they were quirtered upon the inhabitants of. the place, aria . they were per mitted to go through the town and its neighbourhood, without guard or attendance. , They afterwards proceeded to their destination. Five hundred Spa nish horse were hourly expe&ed. The Govern ment Committee had issued an order to take into custody a person named DANICAN, wherever he might be found. The person alluded to we suppose is Genus! DANICAN, who headed the Sections of Paris when BLiONAPARTE was an Officer under the' DireCtory, and employed to terrify them into submission, an appointment which he c-:!cuted with so much zeal that thou sand's of the inhabitants were butchered. Yet this man is now the Ruler of that People whoa he destroyed with such remorseless barbarity. PLYMOUTH, Nov. to.—Arrived the Donegal, of 74 guns, from Portsmouth ; and the Cormorant Excise Cutter, from a cruize: The Bonne Louise, French Letter of, Marque, which arrived here yesterday, brings intelligence that there are three French Frigates loading pro visions - at noureleaux, for Guadaloupe aid Marti nique. PORTSMOUTH, Nov.. i I.—Arrived His Majesty's Ship Goshawk from A cruize, with the loss of her foremast, which was occasioned yesterday by chas ing two French LOgger Privateers ; also the Stalely from a cruize, and the Pha-nix, BADCOCK, fro►n London. His Majesty's Ship . f c; Flcc:he tales Convoy for flymputh.' SHEERNESS, Nov.ll.—Arrived the Bruiser and Forward Gun . -biigs . , Thunder PcitO, and Falcon Sloop of War. Above Ivo Sail have passed for the IliveF ro THE EDITOR OP THE SUN. SIR, Our Generals have been severely, or rather very scurrilously, accused of having suftred the ,French to evacuate Portugal on terms said to be unnecessa rily and shamefully advantageous. Oui Ministers a lso have been severely accused of having been dila tory in dispatching the several armaments sent from this country, and also of having sent them out in sufficiently equipped for their destined services. It seems to be generally allowed that BUONApARTE has extraordinary talents for planning his enterprises with great forecast; and for executing them with surprising activity ; he is also represented as ha6ng immense resources at his command. Oa the sth of May, FERDINAND VII. signed an absolute renunciation of the Crown of Spain, which Was immediately conferred on JOSEPH BUONA- In the end of May, or the beginning of June (for I have not the means of giving exad dates, nor are they material) Don MATTE.ROSA arrived here, on the part of the Spanish Nation, to solicit the assistance of England. The following columns will shel.v what has been dOne by England to_ support the rights of FERDI NAND VII. and what by BUONA2AItTE W support his brother's usurpation. On the 13th August, 9500 Buonaparte, from the sth Spanish Troops, under Gene- of May to this time, has sent ral Romana, were extricated his Brother to Madrid, where from the command of Buona- lie took possession of the parte. throne. On the 21St September, Sir Buonaparte sent an Army A Wellesley defeated I unot, (about 17,000 men) to the at Vimiera. South, under Dupont, who By the 30th Sept. 33,000 took possession of Cordova, English Troops were in the and soon after surrendered to neighbourhood of Lisbon.— Castanos. lunot agreed that all the Joseph Buonaparte thought French should evacuate Por• it adviseable to withdraw tugal as soon as Transports from Madrid. should be provided for their A Division of the French conveyance to F ranee. Arzny twice attacked Sara- Sir Charles Cotton took gossa, and was twice repulsed. possession of the RusSian Bilboa has been twice De- Fleet in the Tagus ; copied by the French and And .4000 Spanish Troops, twice evacuated. - imprisoned by lunot, were His main Army, under Ney liberated. and Bessieres, is daily more Early in October General and more straitened in its po- Rornana's Troops were land- sition between the Ebro and ed at St. Andero ; Pampeluna. And Sir D. Baird, with To this very day it is not 13,000 Troops, landed at Co- ascertained that Buonaparte runna. ' has sent a Tingle Regiment to About the same time,zoooo reinforce his Army in Spain. Troops, under Generals Moore and Hope, began their march towards the Bulks of the Ebro. At what time these Troops may be within reach to co. operate with the Spaniards, cannot be ascertained. But, p[obably, Sir 1). Baird may have joined by thi. time (Nov. 6), and Gencrals Moore #nd Hope about a fortnight later. I do not take the money, arms, clothing, or warlike store 6 into the account. On this comparative view of the exertions made by all the parties engaged,. I submit to the consider ation of your Readers the following quest ions :- 1. Is there any reasonable cause for the public to be dissatisfied with the imprudence or inactivity of our Generals or Ministers 2. May not the dissatisfa&ion, of late so preva lent, proceed from injudicious or unreasonable ex pe'aations ; or from an ignorance of some unavoid able, though not insurmountable, obstacles to carry ing on the war in a distant country; where the an nual produce of grain is not equal to the annual con sumption, where the Commissariat Department cannot yet be well understood, and where there must, of course, be particular difficulties in main taining numerous armies in the field ? BUONAPARTE is, without doubt, making consi derable, and, perhaps, dangerous preparations to carry his point, and no human foresight can predict the final' event. But I beg your Readers to observe that I profess 'to state faas only ; and I further profess to state them in proof of the power, energy,' and wisdom of this Country: From those fatis it appears (as far as I can judge) that hitherto, from JOSEPH'S Usurpation to this time, England has done a great deal, Spain a great deal more, and BiJONA PARTE nothing. . _ November 6, ISO. A PLAIN SPEAKER. Don CHVALLOS,.. in going upon a mission to St. Petersburgh after having so completely developed the infamous condudt of BUONAPARTE, respecting the Royal Family of Spain, in the publication whir:o be submitted to the world, has shown more zeal for his country than discretion. He ought to re coiled that 'the murderer of the Duke D'ENIGHIEN is now at the Russian Court, and that it the French Tyrant were to send orders to ALILXANDER to give 'up CgvALLos as a rebel to Joslitin, King of the passive Emperor of all the ItdsSiaS dare not re fuse the demand, and that if he did, CALTLINCOURT 4QUI(I most probably devise means to get CavALLos removgd from Russia, or disposed of in a snore suns- puffy. GOTTENBUI?aII GOTTENBURGII, Nov. 7.—The Armistice in land was broken by the Russians on the 27th ult. and a severe engagement ensued, the result ° I which is not yet known, but it is feared the Swedes have been worsted. The King is returned to Stock" holm. STOCKHOLM, Nov. 3.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Suclermania bas received the following Report :-- Y " The expeeled large convoy were first descried from the steeple of this town, the day before yes' terday, at two o'clock in the afternoon. 1.116 Gun-boats bad been lying ready in the R O4 from an early hour in the morning, but a har d gale springing up, the Gun-boats were corn pelled to leave the road; and put into port. The men remained on board, and the gale abating at 12 o'clock at midnight, the gun-boats went ou t again to meet the convoy, which had not yet po et/ Dragoe. 4t break of day the gun-boats formed s line off Dragoe, and dispersed some Danish gun' boats and small veFtsels, which had gathered r oiled ship of the convoy Which had struck a-ground, The gun-boats were ordered to assist the above Shp io getting off the ground, in doing which they wer e employed until yesterday, at 4 o'clock in the aft er ' noon, when the Danish Gun-boats came out Dragoe, Copenhagen, and other places, and wile in line opposite to ours, with the exception of 1$ of them, which stretchgd:Tong the coast to attack the Afi.ica, an English Ship of the Line. "I ordered our Gun-boats to be cleared for aetic' n ' but perceiving that five Sail of the Convoy- were aground, without any assistance or prcteaion, I re solved to sail to Malmo Road, in order to conce rt with the Commander of the Convoy measures t° prevent them falling into the enemy's hands' Having fortunately soon after fall en i n w ith him' t returned to Dragoe, and joined our G un -b o ats. /* the same time, preparations were made to destl such Ships as could n o t be sa ve d. I thi s d a y o rdere d the Gun-boats, in consequence of the Convoy liav i°s safely reached M a l mo , t o return to port, as , 0 3 d any contrary - wind sprung up, they would have . Ct' egi exposed to the danger of being blown close ip Wi th • the Danish shore. ‘c C. J. DIEDRICH, t " and Adjut.,G e p. o f t hP flfe • " Malmo, Oct. at, ISA." CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. i 7.—The Grand V i MUSTAPH4 liktft&crAr. has caused 40,000 M el) to march to the Danube. Resides these, thero B( 3 26,000 organized in the European manner. the Richas of Europe and Asia are setting on 10 their contingents with all speed, in order to P I : serve their heads. To form the Turkish arrop a. cording to the system of European tadics, Ctg Grand 'Vizier employs an ()dicer tarn erly to d ,, - service of Austria, and who has nom tak.en ther name. The use of the bayonet is oh of novelties introduced into the Turkish infa 3tll ' (Mphiteur a (kg. 30) CASSEL, OCT. 2o.—The French General .E llt '! ; K has been appointed 'Minister at Wir for the —lne dons of Westphalia. He is already arrived 40 ll~t4 cap:tat. the PARIS, OCT, 30.— , M. Ds CAtm,tricotia l ' g , Senator, the father of the Ambassador - 10 g ussl 7 . died here the day before yesterday. , —(Mo nite" .()Ci 31.) that • VIENNA, OCT. I s.—They, write from b y t the Crown of Hungary, which is corisidere u . Hungarian nation as the palladium of its i" dePel : once, has been brought back to the citade l `'t 'hat city on the 4th of ()amber, after having ti g Presburgh during t 4 days. —lt has been receive ' and placed in an apartine i nt of the Royal Castle, 'll4b much solemnity.. OCT. 20.—They write from Trieste, that sev eral , Lei merchant vessels of that place, returning from t h e vast, have been stopped by the English Sqindro° ` 11 :: der. Rear-Admiral MARTIN. 'The Captains of (11' erg ° vessels, as also the passengers, were made to ti ' d 4so .l. a long examination, after which they were re l : - According to their accour.ts, Rear Admiral 13 ' 1' e TIN has a Squadron of five or six Ships, on" ' ll e Frigates and Brigs. . He never approaches lonian Isles, except at a great distance ; h cll l7 ,i, detaches, from time to lime, a Ship or a 5e5 gate from his Squadron to observe wha t 17:15 1 . ,i5 there. Admiral has. been :recalled, 0 " 3 successor,. Admiral Putty's, is expeaed i ns ` diately at Messina, to take upon him the c° mand of that Feet. t he We. have seceivea the\ followina accounts , 'te• disasters that have happened in the Port of Ir'eb In the night of the lst Odober a most dreadit il tes as pest suddenly came . on. The fury oldie wa y° a, such that the noise of them might be heard ibil'll7l, the whole town. The next morning lx 51 ' 4)4 wh e re had taken in thoir cargoes;in whole o r in l''" t ' tie d thtown upon the coast thr ee were ;:tranow-- toe Post-Ot*e, and three whets at some L.ol'/..041 A great r ot, small Vessels, .tioatS, 6;C• 16411 the spls Oa• • , '9)